Pool-table.



No. 685,596. Patented Oct. 29, l90l.-

J. H. GENTER &. J. BESCH.

POOL TABLE.

(Apg vlication filed Jan. 10, 1901. (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 685,596. I Patented 00x29, mm.

' u. H. names a. J. BEscH.

POOL TABLE.

(Application J an. 10, 1901.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNrT D TATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB ll. GEN'IER AND JOSEPH BESOH, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

POOL-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,596, dated October 29, 1901.

- Application filed January 10. 1901. Serial No. 42,776. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB H. GENTER and JOSEPH BESOH, of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pool-Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to billiards; and its object is to provide a new and improved pooltable more especially designed for playing the game known as cocked-hat pool and arranged to afford amusement to the players and to require considerable skill to successfully play the game.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the upper end of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same with the table and rails removed, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the same on the line 4 4 in Fig. 2.

The improved pool-table consists, essentially, of a table A, mounted on a suitablyconstructed frame B and surrounded by a cushioned rail 0, the upper or head portion 0 of which is made semicircular and formed with pockets D for the balls E to drop in, said balls E being preferably three in number set up at the head portion of the table in cocked-hat style, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A fourth ball E at the foot of the table is propelled by a one in the hands of a player to strike the cocked-hat balls E, so as to send the same to the pockets D. The pockets D are of different sizes, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and are marked with corresponding values--that is, the central pocket is the smallest one and has the highest value, (five hundred points.) The nearest pockets on opposite sides of the central pocket are somewhat larger, and their value is three hundred points. The next succeeding pockets are still larger, with a value of two hundred points, and the side pockets are the largest, with a value ofone hundred and fifty points. A ball dropping into a pocket D actuates an annunciator F, arranged at the head of the table and indicating the value of the pocket through which the ball dropped. The annunciator F is provided with. a lever F, pivoted on the frame B a distance below the table A in alinement with a pocket D, so that a ball dropping through the pocket falls upon one end of the lever and imparts a swinging motion thereto. Each lever F is connected with an indicating-lever F having a segmental arm F on which is marked the number of points of the corresponding pocket, and said segmental arm F is adapted to swing in register with an aperture F in a casing F set at the head of the table, the apertures facing down the table to be in sight of the players standing at the lower end of the table. Normally the indicating-levers F are in a lowermost position, as shown in Fig. 4; but when a ball E drops through a pocket then the corresponding lever F is actuated to impart an upward swinging motion to the indicating-lever F so that the arm F thereof swings into register with the corresponding aperture F and displays the number of points indicating the value of the pocket through which the ball dropped. A ball after leaving the lever F drops into a chute G, attached to and extending at the under side of the frame B to the lower end thereof, so that the balls roll to the lower end of the chute and can there be conveniently removed and placed back upon the table.

In the rear wall of each'pocket and in the portion above the table A is arranged a tip or button H, of leather or other suitable material, so that a ball passing into the pocket strikes the said tip previously to dropping down in the pocket onto the lever F and chute G, as previously described. By this arrangement the ball' is not liable to make undue noise.

Instead of having ahead at only one end of the table, as shown and described, we may provide the other end with a similar semicircular head with pockets to permit of playing the game from either end of the table.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenttoo 1. Apool-table,comprisingacushionedrail on said table, and having its head portion approximately semicircular and formed with spaced pockets ranging radially, said pockets being of different sizes, an annunciator adapted to be actuated by a ball dropping through one of the pockets, and a return-chute for the balls and receiving the latter from the annunciator actuated by a ball, as set forth.

2. A pool-table, com prisinga cushioned rail on said table and havingits head portion approximatelysemicircular and formed with spaced pockets ranging radially, said pockets being of different sizes, and tips on the roar walls of said pockets above the table, as set forth.

A pooltable havinga cushioned rail provided with spaced pockets, a projecting tip or button forming a cushion arranged on the rear wall of each pocket, the table being provided with openings for the passage of the balls that enter the pockets, and an annuneiator adapted to be actuated bya ball dropping through one of said pockets, as set forth.

4. A pool-table provided with a cushioned rail having its head portion approximately semicircular and formed with spaced pockets ranging radially, an annunciator adapted to be actuated bya ball dropping through either of said pockets, the said annunciator being provided with a series ofactuating-levers arranged approximately in a semicircle beneath the pockets and on which the balls fall, and a chute into which the balls pass after moving the levers, as set forth.

5. A pool-table provided at its head portion with spaced pockets and an annunciator, comprising a casing arranged at the head of the table and provided with a series of apertu res, a series of levers located one below each pocket and on which the ball is adapted to fall, and indicating-levers connected with the first-mentioned levers and each having a segmental indicating-arm adapted to swing in register with the corresponding aperture in the casing, as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JACOB II. GENTER. JOSEPH BEECH. Witnesses:

FREDERICK M. BRESLER, PETER KEELER. 

